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Trade in China, Japan, India?

What was the type of trade in the Indian Ocean from 1000 - 1500

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1. INTERREGIONAL EURASIAN EMPIRES. Central Asian peoples created a series of great conquest empires. The SELJUK SULTANATE emerged as a part of the migrations of Turkish peoples into the Middle East. Seljuks conquered the eastern provinces of the Abbasid Caliphate in the 11th century, proclaiming themselves the protectors of the caliphs and Sunni Islam, and following their victory over the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert in 1071 (See 1071), they took control of Anatolia. Although the extended Seljuk Sultanate lasted only from 1037 to 1092, Turkish soldiers became the ruling elite in many Muslim lands. 2 The MONGOL EMPIRE was the largest of the central Asian empires. It began with the conquests of Chinggis Khan (c. 1170–1227) (See 1206), and by the time of his grandsons' rule, it had become a network of large states. One grandson, KHUBILAI KHAN (r. 1260–94), established the Yuan dynasty, which controlled China until 1368, although expeditions to conquer Japan (1274 and 1280), Vietnam, and Java failed. A second grandson, HULEGU (r. 1256–65), established the ILKHAN EMPIRE (1256–1335) in the Middle East (See 1265–1335) and brought an end to the Abbasid Caliphate with the conquest of Baghdad in 1258. Mongol expansion was stopped in Syria in 1260 by MAMLUKS from Egypt. The central Asian territories were under the control of Djagatai (d. 1241) and were the basis for later Mongol-Turkish states. In the Far West, most Russian states, including Kiev and Moscow, came under the control of the khans of the GOLDEN HORDE, whose descendants ruled parts of Russia until the 18th century. Invasions of Poland and Hungary brought devastation but no permanent occupation. The fact that Mongols did not rule the Ukraine and the Baltic regions encouraged those areas to distinguish themselves from Russia. The khans of the Golden Horde converted to Islam in 1257, and the Ilkhan ruler Ghazan Khan became Muslim in 1295. For almost two centuries, Mongol rulers provided a vast domain within which trade flourished and ideas and technologies were exchanged across much of Asia and Europe. However, Mongol leaders were unable to create effectively centralized control, and the Mongol world gradually disintegrated. 3 TIMUR-I LANG (r. 1360–1405) (See 1398–99) (See 1405) created the last great central Asian conquest empire, which controlled most of the territories of the Ilkhans and Djagatai's successors. However, the empire collapsed with his death http://www.bartleby.com/67/281.html